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TO lALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, JOHN K. UNDERHILL, of Brooklyn, Kings county, New York, have invented a new and improved Button and Stud-Fastener; and I' do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this speciiication, in which- Figure lrepresents a sectional view of my improved button when the same is in position to be applied to a garment.

Figure 2 isa similar view of the same, it being applied to the garment.

Figure Sois an inverted view of the same. I

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relatesv to a-'device by which buttons, studs, and other similar articles can be secured to garments, and consists in the use of two bent arms, of which the end of one is pivoted to the body ofthe button or stud, while the centre of the other is hinged to the centre of4 the former arm.

The first arm is made ot' a solid plate of metal, while the second is a slotted plate, the outer end of the former passing through the slot in the latter. The arms can be so turned that they project at right angles from the button, when they can be easily passed through a button-hole. The outer end of the slotted arm is then moved towards the xed end of the solid arm, and thetwo arms thus assume a-form which is similar to a flattened letter sv,V the garment being held. between the outer and inner ends of theA arms surrounding the hinge o'r'joint of the arms. .The button or Vstud is then bent down so that it will come in contact with the inner-end of the slotted arm, and is locked to the same by a catch attached to theY button. The latter is then securely ixed to the garment, and cannot drop oil' and he lost. Y

A represents a button or stud, which is made of metal, glass, or other suitable material. To its under side, near its rim, is pivoted, by a pin, a, a metal plate, B,which is partly curved, as isA clearly shown in tig. 1. To

vits centre, where the straight portion joins the curved part, is hinged, by a pin, the centre of a slotted plate,

C, which is also partly straight and partly curved, similar to the plate B, as shown. The curved end of the plate B passes through the slot in the curved part ofthe plate C. When the button is to be applied to a garment the parts are in the position shown in iig. 1. The outer ends of the twq plates touch each other, and the same can be passed through a button-hole in the garment; and then the outer end of the plate C is turned towards the hinge a, Vso that the cloth is held betweenv the straight parts of the plate on one side, and to the eurvedparts on the other side, as is clearly shown in iig. 2. The button is then foldeddown towards the inner end of the plate C, and is locked to the same by means of a catch, c, which is secured to the button, and which engages the inner edge (or end of slot) of the plate C, as is shown by red lines in fig. 2. The button can then only be taken oif by pressing upon the outer end of the' plate C, and under that of the plate B, whereby the inner end of the plate C and the catch c are forced apart, and the parts brought into the position which is shown in iig. 1, when the button can be easily released from the garment.

Having thus described my invention, what I. claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, s

The button A, plate B, and slotted plateiO, when. the same are connected and combined with each other, and lmadeand opera-ting substantially as and for 'the purposes herein shown and described.

JOHN K. UN DERHILL.

Witnesses:

WM. F. MCNAMARA, ALEX. F. ROBERTS. 

